Sweet Tea

Praxeas · #1 08-11-2007, 05:45 PM

I was reading an article on Sweet Tea...as Dolly Parton put it ""house wine of the South" in Steel Magnolias...

Who drinks it? I know I have never had it and probably would not like it. Back east my family (Maryland) put sugar in their tea to make it almost like Koolaid and that's not the south. I hated that stuff. From what I understand they put a LOT more sugar in the south "Sweet Tea"

tamor · #2 08-11-2007, 06:01 PM

Oh yeah. Sweet tea. I hate tea, but my family can easily drink a gallon a day. And it has to have LOTS of sugar.

#3 08-11-2007, 06:22 PM

I love iced tea, but hate hot tea..........oops, I do like hot green tea and not cold green tea...lol...When I drink iced tea, I do not want any sugar or any other sweetener in it and I am from the SOUTH!! ....Also, I do love coffee - with no sweetener or cream....Why ruin the flavor of the tea or coffee by diluting it with another substance??...Makes no sense to me!!

Barb · #4 08-11-2007, 06:34 PM

My godbrother, Reg, makes sweet tea...not my idea of refreshing.

Don't like tea and can't even abide the smell of it!!

Y'all know what I love, but I'm on the wagon...

Hesetmefree238 · #5 08-11-2007, 06:37 PM

Absolutely love sweet tea. The problem is it doesn't love me. The caffeine in
tea aggravates my acid reflux condition, so I have to drink it in moderation.
If it were not for this inconvenience, I would drink it much more often.
As to how sweet it should be made, this varies greatly from one restaraunt to
another and one household to another. I like mine moderately sweet, but
not overpowering. Of course it should always be over ice, never hot! Yuck!

Trouvere · #6 08-11-2007, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

I was reading an article on Sweet Tea...as Dolly Parton put it ""house wine of the South" in Steel Magnolias...

Who drinks it? I know I have never had it and probably would not like it. Back east my family (Maryland) put sugar in their tea to make it almost like Koolaid and that's not the south. I hated that stuff. From what I understand they put a LOT more sugar in the south "Sweet Tea"

hahaha.....then mail all your sweet tea allowance to me.I had a huge
glass of it at Panera today with my Chicken Ceasar sandwich.
I hate koolaid btw.Here you can drive through McDonalds and
get a lg sweet tea for a buck.Being its 105 out today not even
sweet tea helps.I learned to drink it from my husband.He makes
his unsweetened.Cajuns don't know what ice tea is.They drink
coffee all day long.Hot,sweet black coffee.That is the "House
wine of Cajun La." If you refuse it they think you feel you are
better than them.

Digging4Truth · #7 08-11-2007, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by SarahElizabeth

I love iced tea, but hate hot tea..........oops, I do like hot green tea and not cold green tea...lol...When I drink iced tea, I do not want any sugar or any other sweetener in it and I am from the SOUTH!! ....Also, I do love coffee - with no sweetener or cream....Why ruin the flavor of the tea or coffee by diluting it with another substance??...Makes no sense to me!!

Tea is a daily drink in our house. My wife and children like it sweet (although some are coming around to the truth

). I prefer nicely iced unsweet tea drank out of the cup (No straws for me). If I buy a Sonic Unsweet tea then I put the straw in my secret straw stash (which I keep for no reason I can recall) and I drink it straight over the ice so it is as cold as possible.

Good stuff.

MrsMcD · #8 08-11-2007, 07:14 PM

My family loves sweet tea. We bring two tea bags to a boil, add one and half cups of sugar for a gallon of tea. There you have it -- sweet tea. The tea has to be iced. It drives my husband nuts when we go to Colorado, New York, etc. and can't get sweet tea. The waitress always offers a flavored tea. Sorry, it's just not the same. :-)

Praxeas · #9 08-11-2007, 07:24 PM

I prefer my green tea green to greenish brown and my black tea brown...no suger...maybe a twist of lemon in my black tea.

I love hot earl grey, strawberry cream (green), lungching dragonwell (green), hot and iced English breakfast, apricot Ceylon and some other black teas....

But like my coffee, I drink they straight, not too weak and not too strong, though I like somewhat strong coffee...it it does not make my eyes squint for more than 10 seconds then it's good :-)

But strong tea just does not taste good at all

Truly Blessed · #10 08-11-2007, 07:44 PM

I'm a coffee drinker myself, but I like tea with apple pie and other deserts. I prefer Chinese tea myself. I don't know as I have ever had sweet tea. I like iced tea. Speaking of sweet. I tried a cappuccino at Tim Hortons the other day. I couldn't believe how sweet it was! How does anyone drink anything that sweet?